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The earliest examples of this art form in
Canada are located in the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario. In the Maritimes, Cora
Greenaway's research has verified the use of decorative painting as early as
1810. These paintings varied from trompe l'oeil, stenciling, striping,
marbleizing, and painted stuccowork and ceiling frieze. Much of the work
discovered is now classified as folk-art... domestic or agricultural scenes
painted on a wall or ceiling , sometimes by an itinerant artist or a farmer.
Many of the paintings were images of places, people and objects of that time.
This particular photograph is an example of a painted stuccowork wall and
ceiling frieze, from a house in Newport Landing, Hants County. The painted work
has been dated back to the 1890's.
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